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Lack of reliable service from plumbers, HVAC, appliance repair people. There are many people available but the quality and consistency of service is highly variable and chances of getting ripped off are high if you don't do your due diligence. I wish there was more standardization in these services where I don't have to worry about getting ripped off and can expect a decent quality of service without spending too muc…
Some easy ones right off the bat: online extremism, public transit, housing, access to healthcare, chronic disease treatment. Online dating is pretty rough. I need a company to get extremely serious about desktop Linux and charge me $100/yr for something that actually works. Yes. It’s okay to charge for copyleft software.
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The problems with most talked about wealth taxes aren't the idea, but the implementation.
Indeed. We already have a wealth tax for the overwhelming majority of Americans and they don’t seem opposed to it. It’s called property tax. They all know what it’s used for. The issue with a wealth tax is purely a marketing one. Rich people have truly done a great job distorting the wording around a wealth tax.
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Some public schools are just fine. Some private schools are awful given who my kid is. I just want to know which one is which.
Where I come from is Almaden Valley of San Jose and Palo Alto, so YMMV depending on where you are. Barely-adequate public schooling doesn't work for my family. Many moons ago, the high school I attended was rich af and an overachiever mecca because of high property taxes and extreme property values. There are also excellent private schools, including some of the more specialized ones for higher gifted and genius kids…
lack of code documentation
AlphaCode --> AlphaDocumentation
High quality, low latency, whole house, distributed wireless audio without a disposable speaker tech business model.
Lack of reliable service from plumbers, HVAC, appliance repair people. There are many people available but the quality and consistency of service is highly variable and chances of getting ripped off are high if you don't do your due diligence. I wish there was more standardization in these services where I don't have to worry about getting ripped off and can expect a decent quality of service without spending too muc…
Some easy ones right off the bat: online extremism, public transit, housing, access to healthcare, chronic disease treatment. Online dating is pretty rough. I need a company to get extremely serious about desktop Linux and charge me $100/yr for something that actually works. Yes. It’s okay to charge for copyleft software.
What issues do you face with online dating?
Once you build a sufficiently big group of mutuals on Twitter and get to know them a little bit without the pressure of relationship expectations, sparks seem to happen so much more naturally and organically just as they might in a workplace or school setting.
I don’t have much hope for online dating in its current form unless it gets to a level of AI invasiveness like in that one Black Mirror episode. Gatling gun dating just isn’t fun or effective.
Problem of unjust societies. My kid will be a multimillionaire in his twenties without a single day of work while his equally capable peers will enface a life of limited opportunity because the best they can do is to work their ass off to pay rent. It is structural and it needs to change. A truly liberal idea could be to reset the "score" when the game is over. Try to be the best you can and earn as much as you can -…
Wealth tax still seems highly unpopular in the general public, not to mention on HN. I think the average user here is more interested in bringing home FAANG salaries than solving the wealth gap.
I’m more interested in making the existing set of taxes more equitable and less favorable to capital (extending equal taxation to capital income as labor income) than adding additional layers of complexity to the tax system.